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C/t?/f Syngenefia. Ord, Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen, "Plant, 945:. 



EJf, Gen. Ch Recept, fubvillofum vel nudiufculum. Pappus nullus. 



CaL imbrlcatiis fquamis rotundatis conniventibus. Cor, 

 radii nullse. 



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5/?. Ch, A. foliis caulinis linearibus pinnato-multifidis, ramis indi- 



vifis, fpicis fecundis reflexis, floribus quinquefloris. 



TI-IE root IS perenrxial: the ftem is round, fmooth, branched, 

 fomewhat hoary, and rifes about two feet in height : the lower leaves 

 are divided into many narrow linear fegments. Handing in a pinnated 

 order ; thofe of the branches are feffile, narrow, and undivided ; they 

 are all of a pale green on the upper fide, and whitifh beneath : the 

 flowers are roundifh, brow^n, and placed in fpikes upon Ihort flender 

 alternate peduncles : the calyx is compofed of numerous narrow feales: 

 the florets are male and female, placed upon a naked receptacle, and 

 in their fituation and ftrudure aeree with the other fpecies of Arte- 



mifia already defcribed. It is a native of Siberia, and flowers in 



September. 



This fpecies, v/hich was lirfl: cultivated in England by Mr. P. 



Miller/ we obtained at the Royal Garden at Kew ; but whether 





the officinal Santonicum, or not, feems very doubtful.*" 



It appears by the fpecies plantarum, that though Linnasus firfl: con- 

 fidered this plant to be the Santonicum, afterwards however he changed 

 his opinion, and referred it to another fpecies, named Artemifia j 



daica;' and in this he has been followed by Murray and Bergius \ but 



the evidence upon which this determination is founded, is admitted 



LinucTus himfelf to be fl:ill inconclufive,' we have in conformity 



to the London College adopted the Artemifia as originally referred to. 



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Alton's Hort. Kew. 



GeoiFrov on this fubiea is ftilL in fome meafur 



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applicable : — " Nulla quidem res in officinis magis ufitata & cuj 

 fit. Nurn in Gallia proveniat, in Palaeftina, iny^.gypto, vel in P< 

 Boutan. in India orientali remotiffima." M. M. voh. it. p. 466 



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of the other plants hitherto not 

 fufiiciently afcertained. See his Preface to the Materia Medlca. 



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